[Python-Dev] Python Thread Stack Size

[Martin v. Loewis]

Casey Duncan <casey@zope.com> writes:

> It seems that FreeBSD has a  default thread stack size of 64K

Can you point to any documentation that says this is the case?

> Jim suggested that Python should set the thread stack size itself to
> something like 256 * the pointer size, which would work out to 1Mb
> on 32 bit platforms and 2Mb on 64 bit platforms. This would
> hopefully lead to more consistent behavior across platforms.

I think the stack size should accommodate for sys.getrecursionlimit,
with a generous estimate of how much one recursion (in ceval)
consumes. There not much point of setting the default to a higher
value, since you will get an exception anyway if you exhaust the
stack.

In addition, I think on platforms supporting setstacksize, the thread
stack size should be runtime variable, so that sys.setrecursionlimit
can expand the stack reserve estimate if necessary.

Regards,
Martin